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That might be because liberal leaning people ask for their help more than people on the right do. The right has it in their head that the ACLU is their enemy when in reality, they could be their best ally on first amendment issues. There are cases of ACLU defending Christians.

The ACLU from it's founding has been an avowed fan and supporter of Communism...even while Stalin was brutally purging the country of millions of people.

Baldwin showed much sympathy to the Soviet economic system in his statement in his Harvard classbook, and in the foreword he wrote to Letters from Russian Prisons (1924). He embraced the view that the Russia of his day was "a great laboratory of social experimentation of incalculable value to the development of the world."

In the 1930s Baldwin and the ACLU became linked to the Popular Front movement, which was engendered by Stalin to strengthen the Communist Party by allowing it to make common cause with socialists and other leftist groups. Baldwin himself made two trips to the Soviet Union, and in 1928 published a book entitled Liberty Under the Soviets, which contained effusive praise for the USSR.

That might be because liberal leaning people ask for their help more than people on the right do. The right has it in their head that the ACLU is their enemy when in reality, they could be their best ally on first amendment issues. There are cases of ACLU defending Christians.

Well, they are the Civil Liberties Union.

Look at it this way: their job is to defend crazies who are persecuted or treated unfairly by the law because the content of the speech or particular issue really goes against the mainstream moral compass, even though it is "legally" permissible.

In short: their job is defending "extremists" when the law is being used to squash minority opinions. Who does this sum up?

What people need to realize is that if some guy had 20 pandas chained in their basement for sexual exploitation and was served on an illegal warrant, that the ACLU files a brief saying that the case must be tossed because the warrant was improper does not mean they support pandastution. This is why they have a bad reputation, as it ends up looking like they support such liberal causes.